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Thursday, August 09, 2007

Top Ten Factors Affecting Your Search Engine Position

Here are the top ten ways to improve your position in the search engines.They are in order of Most Important to Least Important! (in my opinion)

1. Quality inbound links from relevant pages with relevant anchor text to relevant pages.2. Quality Inbound Relevent Links3. Original content with each page built around a few targetted keyphrases with correct use of page title and URL.4. Keyphrase-based domain name5. Quality Directory Listings6. Large Websites 7. Quality Relevent Outbound links 8. Site map9. Correct use of H1, H2, Meta, and Alt tags10. Correct use of keyword density & metatags (important to Yahoo & MSN)